Dina Nayeri

Nayeri is the author of the award-winning book The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You and Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough. She is the winner of the UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, as well as a finalist for the Rome Prize and a Granta New Voices Project pick

Recent Articles

How Police Interrogation Techniques Fail People with Autism

After a fire killed his son and burned his wife, Michael Ledford didn’t perform his grief as the police expected. He became their top suspect.

By Dina Nayeri

Waiting is a Boot on Your Neck: How Refugees Summon Joy and Why They Hide It From Us

I spent sixteen months of my childhood in limbo, first as an undocumented Iranian immigrant in Dubai and then in a refugee camp outside Rome, in the carcass of an old hotel that the government...

By Dina Nayeri
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